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Radiophrenia
21/08/23 - 03/09/23
What is Radiophrenia?
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Radiophrenia is an artist-run radio station broadcasting temporarily from the CCA. It’s a two week exploration of sound and radio art. Radiophrenia aims to promote radio as an art form and encourage experimental approaches to the medium not catered for by mainstream stations. We have a series of live-to-air events programmed in the CCA theatre. Artists are invited to create performances that work for both the theatre audience and the unseen audience listening at home. We have a programme of local and international acts lined up for these shows.
How can people tune in?
Listeners in Glasgow can tune in on their radios at 87.9FM. Listeners around the world can stream the broadcast from our website Radiophrenia.scot. There will also be a listening space at CCA.
Are there any acts or performers you’re particularly excited about or would like to highlight?
We have planned for a few years to get multi-disciplinary polymath Nwando Ebizie to do a live performance, which has been cancelled twice due to Covid. Hopefully third time lucky. She’ll be performing a piece with Tom Richards, who designs and builds his own electronic instruments. She promises “A multisensory, psychedelic, polyrhythmic mythic feast of movement, light, poetry and sound unfolds and you are invited into this liminal space for a spiraling cyclic ritual”. But everyone in the line-up will bring a unique perspective to the possibilities of live radio.
What do you think is the potential of radio as an art form?
The airwaves represent an invisible yet accessible domain largely neglected by the contemporary art world. Radio as an art form has an ability to create a sense of community amongst a disparate and geographically isolated set of listeners, whilst generating the excitement and energy implicit in a live broadcast. We believe radio to be an egalitarian medium that can be used to disseminate challenging and thought provoking ideas to a wide audience of listeners whilst also giving people the opportunity and skills they need to make radio themselves, their own way.
